I have an old video from my university days of my initiation into a sports society that I need help uploading onto the internet, so that I can share it with a few friends.
The initiation took place on ‘Suicide Sunday‘, which is the Sunday after the end of the summer term at Cambridge University just before exam results are published, so the day consists of everyone trying to drink themselves to death.
Throughout the day there are a lot of parties, with the first one starting at around 9am, so you can imagine the state of Cambridge students on what is usually a very hot day….
Anyway, my initiation started at 8am in the morning and given that the members of my sports society were a bunch of 18-25ish rugby, football and hockey players, lets just say that our ceremony was ‘very creative’. So much in fact, that my initiation was filmed and turned into a documentary of which I was given a copy on VHS. The tape was actually sent to Channel 4 and they almost aired the tape as they were ‘shocked’ what the ‘intelligent’ students at the UK’s top university really got up to! Thankfully, they didn’t.
I now want to upload the video (I’ve converted it to DVD) so that I can share it with a few select friends, but I want to do it in such a way that I can control access and distribution. For example, I don’t at some point want the video being circulated around the office by email, or even worse sent to my parents!
I don’t think password protecting the file is sufficient, as the password would just get circulated. I’m stumped, so I thought this would make a good reader challenge. Does anyone have a solution to my problem? The prize is you’ll be allowed to watch the video


